Chapelle Saint Roch - Remollon, Paca, France
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N 44° 27.925 E 006° 10.555
32T E 275356 N 4927446
La chapelle Saint Roch à Remollon
Waymark Code: WMWBVB
Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Date Posted: 08/10/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
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FR Perchée sur son tertre rocheux, un peu en amont du village, cette chapelle champêtre domine les grands vergers de la plaine de la Durance.

Son vocable est en fait « Notre-Dame de Clémence », mais la tradition populaire n’a retenu que celui de Saint-Roch, sans doute en mémoire des circonstances qui ont amené sa construction.

En 1854, une terrible épidémie de choléra née à Marseille décime la population de la Provence puis remonte le long de la Durance, et fait également de nombreuses victimes dans l’Embrunais et le Gapençais. Mais aucune dans le village de Remollon pourtant bien exposé !

C’est la même épidémie qui a fourni à Jean Giono le décor de son roman « Le hussard sur le toit »

Conduits par le curé Félix Repelin, les habitants du village érigent cette chapelle en remerciement à la protection de la Vierge, qui fut ardemment sollicitée au plus fort de l’épidémie. Une procession inaugurale y a placé côte à côte dans le chœur les statues de la Vierge, de Saint Sébastien, patron de la paroisse, et bien sûr de Saint Roch, protecteur contre les épidémies.
EN Perched on its rocky hillock, a little upstream of the village, this rural chapel dominates the large orchards of the plain of the Durance.

Its name is in fact "Notre-Dame de Clemence", but the popular tradition has only retained that of Saint-Roch, presumably in memory of the circumstances that led to its construction.

In 1854, a terrible epidemic of cholera born in Marseilles decimated the population of Provence and then ascended along the Durance, and also made many victims in the Embrunais and the Gapençais. But none in the village of Remollon yet well exposed!

It was the same epidemic that gave Jean Giono the setting for his novel "Le hussard sur le toit"

Conducted by the priest Felix Repelin, the inhabitants of the village erect this chapel in thanksgiving to the protection of the Virgin, who was ardently solicited at the height of the epidemic. An inaugural procession placed the statues of the Virgin, Saint Sebastian, patron of the parish, and of course Saint Roch, protector against the epidemics, side by side in the choir.
Geocaching S.P.03 - Autour du Lac : Remollon Chapelle St Roch
Type of Church: Chapel

Status of Building: Actively in use for worship

Diocese: Gap

Address/Location:
Les Graves
Remollon, France
05190

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Date of organization: Not listed

Date of building construction: Not listed

Dominant Architectural Style: Not listed

Associated Shrines, Art, etc.: Not listed

Archdiocese: Not listed
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